Quote by Bess Streeter Aldrich

“She did not know why it seemed to her so tragic to cry in her sleep.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“She cried and her tears fell in the wrong direction. Not down over the light of her cheeks to the corners of her mouth,…

— Cheryl Strayed

“I think unconsciously I was afraid that if she asked me how I felt, my unleashed grief and rage would kill us all. In…

— Jean Hegland

“She cried herself to sleep, and I held her until she stopped. I rolled over and pushed my face into the pillow. I figured…

— Linwood Barclay

“Hope had beaten her to death. She dried her eyes, shut down her heart, and plunged herself into an emotional coma. So much easier…

— Shannon Hale

“For a while she cried silently until she tired herself out and the overwhelming feeling of sleepiness overcame her. The room around her was…

— Jason Medina

“She did not like seeing her loved ones like this, bent over with sorrow; everything in her wanted to cry out, to thrash and…

— Anne Ursu

“She lay on her back in bed for a long time thinking and when she returned to school an hour early she was beyond…

— Anonymous

“Crying had made her want a shoulder on which to rest her head, arms to hold her. She'd wasted too many tears alone in…

— Laurie Alice Eakes

“Hope had been beaten to death. She dried her eyes, shut down her heart, and plunged herself into an emotional coma. So much easier…

— Shannon Hale

“...her melancholy mood had followed her home. It clung to her like perfume, filling the rooms she visited with the scent of loss. Surely…

— Elise K. Ackers

“The thought of leaving her alone haunted me. The sadness was suffocating me and twisting my chest and my heart and I couldn't breathe…

— Bernadette Sutherland